Chapter 2 Haizi in the Desert Chapter 1

"Honey, when are we going back?" "What, are you bored?" "Yeah, it's too inconvenient to stay in this kind of place. There's no internet or TV. I can't bear it if this goes on! Besides, don't you have to take care of the company?" "You don't need to worry about my company! It's just that this place is really weird." "Yeah, there's not a single young man here, it's all a group of old men. And the two people we hired, they don't know where they died these days, and they can't be found. Now the language is barrier, so I can only talk about it every day." Staying in this wretched place with no one to talk to, I really want to go back!"

"How to get there? There are deserts all around here, without camel caravans and guides, I'm afraid we will die without a place to bury us once we get out of here!" The ones who spoke were Xu Wen from Shanghai and his little secretary Xiao Xu. They were the ones who rescued the wet Chu Feng and Ling Ning from the desert three days ago.At that time, Chu Feng and Ling Ning were unconscious, and Chu Feng was seriously injured. The old man Aldeck, the guide, couldn't help but direct two camel workers to change directions. this village. At the beginning, Chu Feng sometimes fell asleep, talked in sleep, and developed a high fever, which seemed to be a serious injury.Xu Wen and the others wanted to send Chu Feng to the hospital, but they were stopped by old man Rob.

Xu Wen knew that with Chu Feng's injuries, he might die before he left the village.He had no choice but to be a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and let the Rob people smear strange medicines on Chu Feng's body. Miraculously speaking, as soon as these medicines were applied, Chu Feng's fever gradually subsided, and his breathing became much more even.He slowly calmed down and fell into a deep sleep.The old man didn't talk much, and just took the medicine on time every day. During this period, Chu Feng regained consciousness several times, probably because of the pain and fell asleep again.However, his complexion is getting better day by day.

Xu Wen and Xiao Xu's words came to Chu Feng's ears intermittently, and he gradually regained consciousness, but his headache was splitting, and his body seemed to be torn apart. Apart from the pain, he could hardly feel the existence of his hands and feet.Helpless, he had no choice but to slowly open his eyes. Fortunately, the light was not too harsh, so his eyes gradually got used to it: layers of dense silvery leaves were caressing slightly, and stars could be seen twinkling through the gaps between the leaves! where is this? Chu Feng felt that he was still in a dream, so he bit the tip of his tongue a little harder, it hurt!

"Hey! Wake up!" A sweet female voice came, and then a woman with an oval face approached Chu Feng, followed by a young man.There was no expression on the man's face, but there was a hint of joy on the woman's face. "This..." Chu Feng's voice was hoarse, and he couldn't speak at all. "I don't know!" The man seemed to know what Chu Feng was going to ask, so he answered very coldly, and motioned the woman to pour water for Chu Feng. Chu Feng smiled gratefully, and took two sips of water slowly from the cup that the woman brought to his mouth. Although his whole body hurt when he swallowed, his throat felt much more comfortable after a few sips of water.

The woman is a fast-talking person, and she talked a lot regardless of whether Chu Feng could answer or not. "Wow! What's the matter with you? How did you appear on the deserted desert with your whole body wet? If you didn't happen to meet us passing by, you would be dead, you know! This is where the guide Rob brought us. When we first found you You all have a high fever, thanks to the old man Rob's medicine, it works even though it looks disgusting!..." After being quarreled by her, Chu Feng gradually came to his senses, and was startled: Where did Ling Ning go?At this thought, I suddenly became a little scared and struggled to sit up.Unfortunately, his body didn't allow it, and there was a burning pain in his chest: "Ahem!"

The woman was still chattering to herself: "You are so strange, you have been lying down for three days, and just woke up, you just got up, you are so hurt, how is it possible..." Hearing what she said, Chu Feng was even more anxious, he was so hurt, Ling Ning was a little girl, he didn't know what kind of injury he was, and thinking of his teacher, he struggled even more. "She's fine!" the man said. "Ah?" The woman looked bewildered, not knowing what kind of riddle the two men were playing. "The girl who came with you is fine, she is not injured, but just lethargic." The man obviously said to Chu Feng.Hearing this sentence, Chu Feng calmed down, but he still didn't lie down. "Okay, Xiao Xu, you go down first, I want to talk to him!" The latter sentence was said to the woman.

The woman wanted to say something, but seeing the serious expression of the man beside her, she didn't dare to mention it, turned around and went to the door, and really "go down". Seeing her head getting shorter and shorter until it disappeared in front of him, Chu Feng was surprised for a moment, wanted to see what happened, but touched the wound again.He opened his clothes, only to find that there was a chi-long wound on his chest, maybe it was scratched by something, the skin was turned out, he didn't know what medicine was given, but it didn't bleed. The man hurried over to support him: "You are too injured, you can't move now!"

Chu Feng looked around carefully at the environment he was in. The roof seemed to be the canopy of a tree, and the surrounding walls were made of red willows, reeds and tree sticks. Although the builder was skillful, there were still some red willows Branches pop out.There should be a simple wooden bed under him, the bed is not high, and there is a leather mattress made of unknown animal skins, which is very soft. Chu Feng realized that his struggle just now seemed to make the leaves on the top of his head make a slight "rustling" sound, and he felt a little relieved. "This is the village of the Rob people?" He asked suspiciously. Although his voice was hoarse, he was able to speak at least.

"It should be! I can't understand the language, and I haven't figured out where this place is, but the living habits of the people here are exactly the same as the ancient Luobu people introduced in the book." The man saw that Chu Feng stopped coughing, and laid him down. Stretching out his right hand, "Let me introduce, my name is Xu Wen, from Shanghai, and I'm here for tourism." Chu Feng tried it, and his right hand seemed to be able to move, so he stretched out to hold him: "Chu Feng..." Xu Wen smiled after hearing this, and hurriedly said, "I'll talk about it when you get better." Seeing Chu Feng's anxious expression, he added:

"Don't worry, she's fine. When I found you, your injuries were very serious, with bruises all over your body. Just from the amount of medicine the old man Rob gave you, it can be seen that your injuries are much heavier than hers, and you are fine." , that little girl should be fine." After hearing this, Chu Feng felt relieved. Seeing that Chu Feng didn't feel sleepy, Xu Wen briefly explained what had happened in the past few days. Although they are in the hinterland of the desert, the water here is criss-crossed and the water and grass are abundant. Xu Wen and the two had already lost their way, and they didn't know where they were at all.They were also very surprised when they first arrived here—how could there be such a place in the desert? In the past two days, Xu Wen met other people, and went fishing in a canoe with the villagers. In the evening, someone invited them to participate in the whole village barbecue meeting.But no one in this village can speak Chinese, and the two Uighur camel workers who can speak a little Chinese have disappeared after entering here.He can only communicate with the people here to get a general idea, but he has no way of knowing where he is. Everything in this village is very primitive.Except for the tree house where Chu Feng lives, the other houses, if they can be called houses, are all made of reeds paste with black mud from the lake. of.And the fishy smell of the lake mud hit his nostrils. To be honest, not to mention his delicate female companion, even Xu Wen himself could hardly bear it. However, he soon discovered the strangeness of the village, and his curiosity made him tolerate some inconvenience in life. He has been waiting for Chu Feng to wake up, so that maybe he can have more partners! "Three days? The day of the accident seems to be the 7th, so today is June 10th?" Chu Feng remembered that Xiao Xu said that he had been lying in bed for three days, and he was calculating the date to himself. "What, today is June 11th!" Xu Wen with sharp ears heard his whisper and immediately corrected him with a smile. When Chu Feng heard what he said, his heart moved. This Xu Wen and his little secretary, Xiao Xu, have been dumb here for three days, and they finally found someone to communicate with. They wanted to have a good chat with Chu Feng, but Chu Feng learned that he was not interested in this place. After knowing nothing, I was greatly disappointed in my heart, and the injury on my body was indeed not serious, so a tired look appeared on my face. When the other party saw him, he thought that he was a patient, secretly felt ashamed, and immediately told him to take a good rest, and followed Xiao Xu's previous route, "going down". Chu Feng watched him dwindle little by little until he disappeared, and he couldn't help thinking wildly in his heart: What exactly is this place? The hinterland of the Taklimakan Desert and the Lop Nur region have a strange feature - there are many large and small lakes in the desert, which are called "haizi" by the locals.This is very rare in other desert regions of the world.But in the hinterland of the desert in Xinjiang, even the Lop Nur saline-alkaline desert as desolate as the back of the moon, the desolation today is only the scene after the water disappeared in recent decades.When there was water decades ago, even though the surroundings were all dead deserts, the edge of Haizi was still full of reeds floating and full of vitality. Chu Feng naturally knew about the Rob people.Although the aborigines in the Lop Nur area live in the hinterland of the desert—the center of the saline-alkali desert Lop Nur known as the Dead Sea, they still make a living by fishing.They have been isolated from the world for thousands of years, and they were not discovered by the world until 1751 AD. The Lop people have always followed Lop Nur and lived by chasing water and grass. Legend has it that they neither walk nor ride horses when visiting relatives and friends.They travel in the water in "kapans" and live by fishing, which is quite similar to the charm of Venice's water town.It wasn't until Lop Nur was completely dry that Lop people had to migrate to the lower reaches of the Tarim River to live! Although the Luobu people had their own language in the early years, they had integrated into the local Uyghurs in the early years of the Republic of China. But how could there be a tree house here that fully conforms to the living habits of the ancient Rob people?Could it be that the flood washed him to the tourist attraction in Yuli County? There is an antique village on the banks of the Tarim River in Dunkuotan Township, Yuli County, 70 kilometers east of Korla City.There are more than 20 families who claim to be descendants of the Rob people.On the contrary, all their living habits imitate the ancient Rob people.Could it be that he was taken hundreds of kilometers away by Xu Wen's guide while he was in a coma? Because the living area of ​​the Rob people overlaps with the ancient Loulan Kingdom, some people speculate that they are the survivors of the ancient Loulan Kingdom.However, compared with the level of civilization of the Loulan people confirmed by archaeological excavations, the Luobu people who suddenly appeared in front of the Qing Dynasty's Ping Zhungeer rebel army were too backward.At that time, the Rob people were completely primitive, which made it hard to believe that they were the successors of the once highly developed ancient desert civilization. Although Chu Feng has been thinking wildly, his subconscious mind has determined that this is the tree house of the Rob people.Also, probably only the tree houses built by the Rob people in the world can make people feel so natural and comfortable.It is now mid-June, the hottest month of the year, but it doesn't feel hot at all here.The natural canopy roof not only allows the starlight to sprinkle on people, but also allows the breeze to get in touch with people effortlessly. Surrounded by this cool breeze, Chu Feng felt very comfortable and relaxed.Soon drowsiness hit him, and he soon fell asleep peacefully, until dawn. Apparently, he felt a lot better the next day.After waking up, he tried his legs and feet. Fortunately, it was not as bad as imagined, and there seemed to be no fractures. Chu Feng tried his best to stand up on the pillar at the head of the bed, his chest was still burning with pain, but he didn't have the severe cough he had last night.He inhaled slowly and exhaled slowly, trying to calm down the involvement of his movements on the wound on his chest. Only now did he see that the wound on his chest showed some signs of healing, so fast, it seemed that he had been rescued for only three days, and such a serious injury was almost healed? Chu Feng tried his best to step forward with his left leg, trying to take one step or two.But his legs were as soft as mud, no matter how much he ordered in his mind, that leg couldn't move half a point.Chu Feng's heart suddenly turned cold!This leg won't, won't be useless, right? "Don't worry! Young man, don't you Han people have a saying that 'you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry'? Your injury will heal soon, but not now!" With this voice, an old man with a wrinkled face appeared In front of Chu Feng.